Veteran city councillor Evelina Halsey-Brandt, who is not seeking re-election, dismissed the proposal at the time but has since had a change of heart, she told The Richmond News.

“The time has come to say that you’re part of Richmond and part of Canada,” she said. “It’s one thing for businesses to advertise only in Chinese, but on development signs that are supposed to inform me of what’s going on in my neighbourhood?”

Halsey-Brandt used to think she could let the situation "ride itself out," she told the Richmond Review, but now feels it must be addressed and challenges the incoming council to do so.